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Google translate worked great long before LLMs.

• doug_durham 11mo ago
  I disagree. It worked passably and was better than no translation. The depth, correctness, and nuance is much better with LLMs.
• Kiro 11mo ago
  I don't think you understand how off that statement is. It's also pretty ignorant considering Google Translate barely worked at all for many languages. So no, it didn't work great and even for the best possible language pair Google Translate is not in the same ballpark.
• verdverm 11mo ago
  LLMs are not they only "AI"
• carlosjobim 11mo ago
  It really didn't. There were many languages which it couldn't handle at all, just making completely garbled output. It wasn't possible to use Google Translate professionally.
• dwedge 11mo ago
  Not really long before, although I suppose it's relative. Google translate was pretty garbage until around 2016-2017 and then it started really improving
• jibal 11mo ago
  The only reason to think that is not knowing when Google switched to using LLMs. The radical change is well documented.